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The Driver Helper Service is used in configuring a PC's GPU driver and provides the ability to override OpenGL refresh rates through via Control Panel in the display properties. It also provides functionality to manage the GPU's refresh rates via the built-in refresh forcer utility. It is called the 'NVIDIA Display Driver Service' in the Windows service controller.

nvvsvc.exe runs as a service under the name nvsvc within the local user context. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by NVIDIA Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA). This particular version is usually found on Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072).

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00007421%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00005569%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00001851%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	187 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Memory
Private memory:	4.93 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	9.38 MB
Private (minimum):	8.18 MB
Non-paged memory:	4.93 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	83.53 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	88.62 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	8.84 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	12.88 MB	37.95 MB
Resource allocations
Threads:	4	12
Handles:	136	600
GUI GDI count:	8	103
GUI USER count:	6	49

nvsvc64.dll (NVIDIA Driver Helper Service, Version 260.99 by NVIDIA)
Total CPU:	0.00005590%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00004658%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00000932%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	27,054/sec	5,741,424/sec
Memory:	2.49 MB	1.16 MB
nvvsvc.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00000931%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000931%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	370/sec
Memory:	988 KB
ADVAPI32.dll
Total CPU:	0.00000931%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000000%
User CPU:	0.00000931%
CPU cycles:	158/sec
Memory:	1.03 MB